The application can be challenged on these grounds:
- Breach of copyright
- Proprietary rights
- Bad faith
- Moral principles and public policy
- Generic marks/words
- Rights of well-known marks
- Rights in a registered design
- Rights in a company/business name
- Rights in a proprietary pharmaceutical or medicinal product
- Rights in a personal name
- Use of a geographical indication
- Prohibited marks based on international treaties
- Rights in a fixed architectural structure or rights in an industrial property
- Registration under agent’s name or other representative
- Use of protected state emblems, flags or armorial bearings
- Functional, descriptive, non-distinctive, disparaging, misleading or deceptive marks
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